Form and use plurals: review

Key Notes:

📘 Form and Use Plurals ✨

🔹 Regular Plurals 📝

Most nouns → add -s

• 👉 cat → cats 🐱 → 🐱🐱
• 👉 book → books 📚

🔹 Plurals ending in -ch, -sh, -s, -x, -z

Add -es

• 👉 bus → buses 🚌
• 👉 box → boxes 📦

🔹 Nouns ending in -y

If a consonant + y → change y to i and add -es

• 👉 baby → babies 👶
• 👉 lady → ladies 👩

If a vowel + y → just add -s

• 👉 toy → toys 🧸
• 👉 key → keys 🔑

🔹 Nouns ending in -f or -fe

Change f/fe → v and add -es

• 👉 leaf → leaves 🍂
• 👉 knife → knives 🔪

Some just add -s (roof → roofs 🏠)

🔹 Nouns ending in -o

• Some add -es → potato → potatoes 🥔
• Some add -s → piano → pianos 🎹

🔹 Irregular Plurals 😮

• Man → men 👨 → 👨‍👨‍👦
• Woman → women 👩 → 👩‍👩‍👧
• Child → children 🧒
• Foot → feet 👣
• Tooth → teeth 😁
• Mouse → mice 🐭

🔹 Same Form in Singular & Plural

• Sheep → sheep 🐑
• Deer → deer 🦌
• Fish → fish 🐟

✨ Tips for Use 🖊️

• Always check the spelling rules before adding endings. ✅
• Some plurals are exceptions – learn them by heart! 💡
• Use plural forms when talking about more than one person, place, animal, or thing. 🌍

👉 Example Sentences:

• I saw two buses at the stop. 🚌🚌
• The children are playing in the park. 🏞️
• She bought three boxes of chocolates. 🍫🍫🍫